Welcome to the Queen's-BSIA International Migrations and Mobilities Graduate Symposium (QB-IMMGS)
The QB-IMMGS brings together a community of students, scholars, and researchers working on the pressing global issues of migration, mobility, displacement, and borders.
The theme for the 2026 Symposium is Borders, and (Un)Bordering: Analyzing Migration and (Im)Mobility In An Era Of "Polycrisis". We invite papers that delve into the co-existence and interweaving of multiple crises such as an acute socio-economic crisis, ecological crisis, persisting racial injustice, conflict, health-care crisis the growth and the rapid spread of far-right populism, breakdown of international order and the denial / exclusion of citizenship rights. It also invites papers that explore resistance and practices of (un)bordering.
We look forward to seeing you at Queen's University in Kingston on 20 and 21 March 2026!
Symposium 2026 Call for Abstracts
The third Biennial symposium is going to be held at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Its focus is on the politics of borders, bordering, migration and (immigration) mobility in an era of "polycrisis." We are inviting students to submit abstracts for this symposium.
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How It Works
Unlike a formal association conference, this Symposium is intended to be an inclusive and welcoming space for students to share their work, and to receive valuable feedback from their peers and faculty members.
Students can apply for a panel discussion if their work is in its later stages, or the roundtable discussion if they are at the beginning stages of their research.
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Thank You!
Thank you to all the participants and discussants who attended the first symposium in 2021! We hosted 3 panels and a roundtable discussion in one long but exciting day on Zoom. The three themes from the 2021 Symposium were Decentering Geographies of Migration; Multiplying Borders, Enduring Struggles; and Migration and Mobility in Pandemic Times.
A special thanks to Dr. Dr. Diana Zacca Thomaz, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School for Social Research, Dr. Ardis K. Ingvars, Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Researcher at the GEST Program and RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference at the University of Iceland, and Dr. Ester Gallo, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy for their invaluable work as the Symposium Discussants.
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